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Zoo (A Zed & Two Noughts) - Peter Greenaway - 1985  Movies

Posted by amerlot at July 18, 2009
Zoo (A Zed & Two Noughts) - Peter Greenaway - 1985

Zoo (A Zed & Two Noughts)
XviD 480x304 695 kb/s |115 min.| 23.976 fps |MP3 134 kb/s [2 canal(es)] | 702 MB+ 3% recovery record
English | Subtitles: Spanish .srt | Genre: Drama

Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local zoo. Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg, and her sinister physician eventually removes the other 'because it looked so sad all alone'. Oswald and Oliver become involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious trafficking in zoo property. But ultimately their only goal is to try and understand their mortal condition.

Drowning by Numbers (1988)  Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Dec. 5, 2011
Drowning by Numbers (1988)

Drowning by Numbers (1988)
A Film by Peter Greenaway
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL 16:9 (720x576) | 01:54:03 | 7,52 Gb
Audio: English, Spanish - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each track) | Subs: Spanish
Genre: Art-house, Drama | 3 wins | UK, Netherlands

Three generations of women, a mother, her daughter and her niece - all called Cissie Colpitts - experience dissatisfaction with their husbands and cause them to drown. The local coroner, an inveterate game player called Madgett, is drawn into a plot to disguise the murders. The story is paced by the numbers one to one-hundred, which appear sequentially through the film.

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)  Movies

Posted by Efgrapha at Sept. 5, 2014
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
DVD9 | ISO | PAL, 16:9 (720x576) VBR | 01:59:09 | 8.03 Gb
Audio: AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each): English, German, Italian, Spanish
Subs: English, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Genre: Black Comedy, Erotic Drama, Satire

This is probably Peter Greenaway's most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a fancy French restaurant that he has recently bought. Having tired of her sadistic, boorish husband, the wife finds herself a lover (Alan Howard) and makes love to him in the restaurant's coziest places with the silent permission of the cook (Richard Bohringer). Though less cerebral than Greenaway's other films, featuring deadly passions reminiscent of Jacobean revenge tragedies of the early 17th century, the picture still offers the director's usual ironic and paradoxical comments on the relations between eating and sex, love and death.

The Belly of an Architect (1987)  Movies

Posted by ETRU at Sept. 30, 2014
The Belly of an Architect (1987)

The Belly of an Architect (1987)
A Film by Peter Greenaway
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:53:51 | 6,68 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 320 Kbps | Subs: English HoH
Genre: Drama

American architect Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy) comes with his young wife Louisa (Chloe Webb) to Rome to supervise an exhibition devoted to Etienne-Louis Boullée, a French architect of the 18th century. Suffering from severe abdominal pains, Stourley doesn't pay much attention to his pregnant wife, and she finds consolation in the arms of suave Caspasian Speckler (Lambert Wilson). Built from rigidly symmetrical images, the film has quite an unusual subject: the belly – both the sick one of the architect and the pregnant one of his wife, the rounded forms alluding to the spherical constructions designed by Boullée, the architect whose visionary projects seldom materialized. Beautifully shot on location in Rome, this ironic fable wittily examines the issues of artistic creativity.

The Belly of an Architect (1987)  Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 7, 2012
The Belly of an Architect (1987)

The Belly of an Architect (1987)
A Film by Peter Greenaway
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Cover | 01:58:35 | 4,27 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Drama

American architect Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy) comes with his young wife Louisa (Chloe Webb) to Rome to supervise an exhibition devoted to Etienne-Louis Boullée, a French architect of the 18th century. Suffering from severe abdominal pains, Stourley doesn't pay much attention to his pregnant wife, and she finds consolation in the arms of suave Caspasian Speckler (Lambert Wilson). Built from rigidly symmetrical images, the film has quite an unusual subject: the belly – both the sick one of the architect and the pregnant one of his wife, the rounded forms alluding to the spherical constructions designed by Boullée, the architect whose visionary projects seldom materialized. Beautifully shot on location in Rome, this ironic fable wittily examines the issues of artistic creativity.

Drowning by Numbers (1988) [Japanese Edition] [Re-UP]  Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 28, 2015
Drowning by Numbers (1988) [Japanese Edition] [Re-UP]

Drowning by Numbers (1988)
A Film by Peter Greenaway
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover | 01:58:48 | 7,33 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: Japanese
Genre: Art-house, Comedy, Drama

Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly duplicitous. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100.

The Pillow Book (1996) [ReUp]  Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Aug. 11, 2015
The Pillow Book (1996) [ReUp]

The Pillow Book (1996)
A Film by Peter Greenaway
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL 4:3 | 02:01:22 | 6,19 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 Spanish - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each) | Subs: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Art-house

Every birthday, Nagiko’s father draws calligraphic figures on her face while ritualistically reciting the story of creation. Nagiko grows into a beautiful young fashion model obsessed with the intersection of calligraphy and sex, seeking lovers who will use her naked body as a canvas on which to write. She meets and falls in love with a bisexual British translator who convinces her to write on others’ bodies, and together they conspire for revenge against the publisher who wronged her father.

The Baby of Macon (1993)  Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 22, 2016
The Baby of Macon (1993)

The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
A Film by Peter Greenaway
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL 16:9 | 01:57:16 | 6,89 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 Spanish - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each) | Subs: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Art-house

The Baby of Macon is a sumptuous-looking but ultimately shallow tale of manipulation, greed, and religious fanaticism set in Peter Greenaway's favorite, the 17th century. In the city of Macon, an ugly woman suddenly bears a beautiful, healthy baby. Her fellow citizens perceive it as a wonder, with rumors circulating that she could not be the real mother of the child. Her 18-year-old virginal daughter (Julia Ormond) tries to use the situation, claiming that the baby is her own and was born as a result of an immaculate conception. The citizens start to worship the baby and the outraged Roman Catholic Church finally intervenes. Aiming at disclosure of the whole Christian mythology, which, according to Greenaway, always served to manipulate people, The Baby of Macon lacks passion or commitment. Even the much publicized violence, including an unseen multiple rape and the onscreen dismemberment of the baby, seems routine and uninspired rather than shocking.

The Pillow Book (1996)  Movies

Posted by Artist14 at May 27, 2011
The Pillow Book (1996)

The Pillow Book (1996)
1080p BluRay Rip | English | mkv | 1440x1080 | Video: x264 @ 8280 Kbps | Audio: AC-3 @ 1510 Kbps | 126 mins | 7.72 GB
Director: Peter Greenaway | Writers: Sei Shonagon, Peter Greenaway, | Stars: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida | 5 wins & 1 nomination
Genre: Drama / Romance

Nagiko's father was a calligrapher, and when she was a little girl he would write his birthday greetings on her face. Her mother would read aloud from a 1,000-year-old manuscript, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, which dealt among other things with the arts of love. Because children invest their birthdays with enormous importance, it's no wonder that when Nagiko grows up she finds a powerful link between calligraphy, human flesh, poetry, and sexuality.
The COI Collection Volume 2: Design for Today (1944-1977) [British Film Institute]

The COI Collection Volume 2: Design for Today (1944-1977) [British Film Institute]
DVD Video, 2 х DVD9 | ~ 227 mn | PAL 4:3 | 720x576 | 14.7 Gb
English: Dolby AC3, 2 ch | Subtitles: English
Genre: Short, Documentary, Drama

Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of Information and was responsible for producing thousands of films which celebrated Britain, its people and their achievements.